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FIFA Must Guide World Club Cup: Rous Call for Inquiry; Victory Without Honour for the Argentines
The first article offers an interview between journalist Geoffrey Greene and Stanley Rous, then FIFA President. It discusses the state of the Intercontinental Cup and solutions moving forward to ensure greater sportsmanship and wider participation by…
Fir Park Team in South America; Bobby Ferrier on Argentine Football: Barbed Wire Round the Field
A brief update on Motherwell's last game in Argentina (a 2-0 loss to Boca Juniors) and its first in Uruguay (a 2-0 win over a Uruguayan select team). The second article offers an account by player Bobby Ferrier on the conditions he and his teammates…
Fir Parkers in South America: "Teachers Being Taught"
Perhaps the most extensive report from Scotland in the Motherwell Times. It offers a synopsis of the English-language press in Buenos Aires (presumably from the Buenos Aires Herald), which takes issue with manager John "Sailor" Hunter's supposed…
First issue of Clarín
Clarín emerged as a major newspaper in the wake of the Peronist government's takeover of La Prensa. This an excerpt of their sports section.
First of the few visit Frondizi on Martín García
President Arturo Frondizi receives his first visitors after his ouster by military forces in mid-1962. The deposed head of state declares that he does not plan on leaving the country as requested by military officials. The ouster of Frondizi was yet…
Football
A brief update on Motherwell's latest game in Argentina: a 3-0 victory over a combined Argentina-Uruguay select team. The article also offers an account of other British teams on overseas tours, including Rangers in the United States.
Football
The report details the formation of the "Buenos Aires Football Club," with the selection of committee members, a subscription fee of 30 pesos, the adoption of the rules of the Football Association, and election of committee members (T. Jackson, T.B.…
Football
The match scheduled for June 29th is a second attempt to organize a public soccer match hosted by the Buenos Aires Football Club in Palermo. Based on the lessons learned from the first game, the club asks players to bring one red and white cap (each)…
Football
A football match took place on May 14, 1874. However, the match by the Buenos Ayres Football Club adopted new rules, the Rugby Union rules. This is a sudden shift for the club, which had been playing a version under the Football Association, or…
Football Discipline Facing Big Test in Argentina
Coverage begins of Manchester United's highly-publicized encounter against Estudiantes de La Plata in the first leg of the 1968 Intercontinental Cup. This opinion piece includes negative remarks about the "Latin" temperament, and the violence…
Football Match
A football match on the cricket fields of Palermo sees Hogg and Heald-led teams meet, with a score of 3-2 for Heald's team. This game coincided with Argentina's indpeendence day. The article makes note that women were in attendance, but that without…
Football Match
Argentina's first recorded football match took place on June 20, 1867, in Palermo, at the grounds of the Buenos AIres Cricket Club. The side led by the Hogg brothers won 4-0 over its opponents, but all 16 participants belonged to the "Club": the new…
Football Veto: Estudiantes to Go Straight Home
Post-match report of the 1968 Intercontinental Cup becomes an opinion piece by Geoffrey Greene about the degree to which sports tensions become national tensions after the President of Argentina stopped Estudiantes from playing some "friendies" in…
From the Argentine
The Motherwell Times reprints a letter from A.B. Monge of the Argentine Football Association to Motherwell FC manager John "Sailor" Hunter. In the letter, Monge wishes the best for Hunter, his family, and players and hopes they will return to…
Frondizi's influence is still strong
Frondizi received a 60-day "no visitors" imprisonment by the military government, while Guido establishes his temporary government. However, as the article lays out, colleagues loyal to the deposed president were under suspicion of carrying out…
Front covers of the Argentina-England match: Argentina: Perjudicada por un mal arbitraje; El culpable de una derrota; Wembley: No hubo "fair play" en el 1 a 0 de Inglaterra
The headlines are clear: injustice took place at Wembley Stadium as England cheated Argentina on the world stage.